pc magazine and wiley books have partnered to create a series of pc magazine and extremetech books. in windows vista solutions mark justice hinton shows you how to personalize vista top to bottom, from the start menu to folder options. pcmag.com is excerpting parts of the book, and in part ii hinton focuses on security issues.

attention to security was foremost on the minds of the developers in vista and internet explorer 7, especially on the interaction between the two, which had been a primary focus of attack in earlier versions of both products.

hinton describes the behavior of the information bar, the rules for popup blocking, and tools to fight phishing are covered. protected mode, the special unprivileged sandbox in which ie7 runs under vista, gets special attention.

hinton also discusses issues which haven't changed significantly in vista and ie7, such as privacy protection.

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Larry Seltzer has been writing software for and English about computers ever sincemuch to his own amazementhe graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.
He was one of the authors of NPL and NPL-R, fourth-generation languages for microcomputers by the now-defunct DeskTop Software Corporation. (Larry is sad to find See Full Bio

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